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The Queen of Swords

Jazmina Barrera

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Utgivningsdatum

01 november 2025

  • 254 sidor
  • 2025
In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera's deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life. Sifting through the writer's archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted in her attempt to fully know her subject. Traditional means of research--the correspondence, photos, and books--serve only to complicate and cloud the woman and her work. Who was Elena Garro, really? She was a writer, a founder of "magical realism", a dancer. A devotee to the tarot and the I Ching. A socialite and activist on behalf of indigenous Mexicans. She was a mother and a lover who repeatedly shook off (and cheated on) her manipulative husband, Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz. And above all, she wrote with simmering anger and glittering imagination. The Queen of Swords is a portrait of a woman that also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable. It transcends mere biography, supplanting something tidy and authoritative for a sprawling experiment in understanding.

  • Författare: Jazmina Barrera
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781949641875
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 254
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-11-01
  • Översättare: Christina MacSweeney
  • Förlag: Two Lines Press